Will my iphony accelerometer be able to detect when I'm putting the "norwegian wood" to some lass, and thereby disable the ringer for all incoming phone calls (especially from the wife)? Or will it tell google to update my twitter with "busy for the next 2 minutes, I'm shagging".

I can imagine the end game for this...

The phone laid flat on a surface somewhere detecting very subtle, fairly rhythmic vibration over a period of time tooting up with "Here are some adverts based on your current activity brought to you by Durex"

Paris ... well its obvious

The next stage would be to hook this up automatically to twitter to post updates......

12:49 Dave has wlkaed to the office watercooler for a drink.

15:02 Dave must be bored - he is polishing his trophy in the toliets

at least it'll be easy to see who's watching porn :P

>"This is just a patent - making the idea work is some way off"

Grrr. What the hell ever happened to the idea that patents protect something you've invented, not something that maybe might work one day if you did ever get round to inventing it? We badly need a huge bonfire of stupid, useless and dishonest patents.

"This is just a patent - making the idea work is some way off"

Wow, what a gem that quote is! I thought patents were meant to secure proprietary inventions? In this case it sadly looks like patent first, sue later.

I for one welcome our Googly accelerometer overlords.

I'll get me coat. It's the one with the GPS stiched into the lining (nothing to do with big brother, I'm just married to a geek wife)

This is a great idea, but would take a lot of time to develop the software and improve the accelerometer chips, then would need 1000's of people to record the movements so they can be identified. I defiantly think this could catch on, and be very useful, as if u had your phone with you and your car crashed it could already call 999 and give them details of rough position (or if gps is available), and depending on how hard it is, calculate wither u might need an ambulance. Again another useful thing is if someone falls over, especially the elderly, it could already call an ambulance if it detects no further movement afterwards.

Another great idea by Google

It's wonderful what you can dream up when there are no money worry problems.

And that NINJA Zen .... is Heap Powerful Renegade Apache Code, Kemo Sabe.

Purple Prose for 21Century Networks?

And a Valid Current Question of BT's Future Ambition..... Virtual Ability.

Couldn't agree more. Especially after Patents like "controlling input in a a user interface by means of mechanical and/or electronic devices" to cover a small thing, but could cover the whole concept of I/O. Or one of those patents that cover things that are so fundamental that no one ever thought to patent, let alone patentable...

We really need to burn the Patent office and start over from start

At the number of people who keep there phones on there person whilst rogering some poor lass. What do you do? have the damn thing in one of those velcro on neoprene arm sleeves?

What did we do before mobile phones?

I can see it now:

Oh yeah baby, yeah, de de le de de de le de, Hello, Cant talk I'm on the job!.....

Paris - she took a call whilst on the job if I recall correctly

Oh brother!

Isn't this just a way to use some technology that already exists? how can that be patented? Thats like saying,

"Oh - I see you've invented and patented the chair, OK, I'm going to patent standing on it to change a light bulb"

Does the patent system allow people to do that?

At last, some to accurately measure the Campbell

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/08/24/vulture_central_standards/

"As you can see, members of the Jury, the phone was only travelling at 12 linguine per second, and was in fact decelerating at 1.2 liguine per second squared when it struck.........”

My thoughts exactly when I read that part of the article.

@ I am concerned AC

"keep there phones on there person"

You are making no sense, dear AC. What the hell are you talking about? And if you actually meant "keep their phone on their person", well... Some people might like their phones on vibrate, you know.